The White Gifts Program, in which students raise money to help their neighbors and community members in need, is a long-standing tradition at Ramallah Friends School. Beginning in October and lasting through December, students and teachers host weekly bake sales to raise money.
Read MoreOn January 1, 2022, Friends United Meeting is grateful to welcome our newest staff member to serve as our Programme Coordinator in our Africa Ministries Office. Of course, Getry Agizah is not new to FUM. For many years she served as the coordinator for the Friends Church Peace Team. Following Kenya’s post-election violence in 2007, Getry participated in many types of peace work, including Alternatives to Violence, trauma healing and reconciliation, mediation, civic education, and the Nonviolence Movement for Social Change. She is a skilled communicator, mobilizer, and coordinator.
Read MoreGATHERED IN CHRIST - As One Who Abides Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:4-5 NRSV)
Read MoreThe Psalmist says that, “it’s good and pleasant for brethren to dwell together in unity. This attracts God’s blessing (Psalm 133). Our gathering together as FUM, QMI, and USFWI will touch God’s heart and cause as to have an open heaven with showers of blessing and at the end of the gathering each one of us will have a story of praise to the Lord.
Read MoreThroughout our history, the people known as Friends (or Quakers) keep rediscovering an essential and enduring truth: There is one who speaks to our most basic needs and most significant hopes—Christ Jesus the Lord. Both individually and communally, we are learning to know and follow the Voice that guides us in the way we should go. Together, we seek to understand and obey that truth which sets us free. As a people, we share in the experience of that powerful life which makes all things new. Maybe you are searching for an authentic and transforming faith and community to call home—if so, come in and join us as we seek to know and follow Christ.
Friends United Meeting commits itself to energize and equip Friends through the power of the Holy Spirit to gather people into fellowships where Jesus Christ is known, loved, and obeyed as Teacher and Lord.